Topband: Vertical dipoles in the real world

[wa3mej at comcast.net]

I noticed that some of the DXpeditions are using vertical diipoles next to the sea on at least some of the higher bands ( I am guessing 20 and up).  I stuffed the data into EZNEC 5.0 and came up with some suprising results, hope I did it correctly I am not an antenna guru . Now as Tom has just indicated modeling is great but its only modeling it doesnt really tell what happens in the real world/ground conditions etc. 



Does anyone have any real world experience with these dipoles?  Do they work in non beach environments such as near the mountians? Comments welcome... and I am willing to take the comments off list if it suits you. 



If this is not a fools folley I will put together what I find suprising and put it on my web site for everyone to access but I dont to take the time to document it if its a waste of time.  



Jim 


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